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I have a question about lecture3 in listening part of the site #1 (permalink) Fri Dec 24, 2010 13:58 pm   I have a question about lecture3 in listening part of the site
 

Why does the professor imply when he says this: "They replaced quote unquote serious news with feature stories."?
(A) that USA Today does not know what serious news is
(B) that other papers shouldn't have copied USA Today
(C) that people have different definitions of serious news -- CORRECT
(D) that USA Today changed the style of other papers

why the correct answer is "C"

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Re: I have a question about lecture3 in listening part of the site #2 (permalink) Fri Dec 24, 2010 14:35 pm   Re: I have a question about lecture3 in listening part of the site
 

Why does the professor imply when he says this: "They replaced quote unquote serious news with feature stories."?
(A) that USA Today does not know what serious news is
(B) that other papers shouldn't have copied USA Today
(C) that people have different definitions of serious news -- CORRECT
(D) that USA Today changed the style of other papers

why the correct answer is "C"

He is implying that the editor of the newspaper did not deem the articles serious enough for publication.
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